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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY OF Music

2000-2001 Season

Jazz Series

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

JAZZ ORCHESTRAS
featuring

JIM MCNEELY, PIANO

2000-2001 Wilma and Clifford Smith Visitor in Music

FACULTY
of MUSIC

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Where Great Music Meets Great Minds

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Wednesday, November 8, 2000, 8:30 p.m.

Walter Hall
Jazz Series

Presents

10 & 11 O’cLOCK Jazz ORCHESTRAS
WITH JIM McNEELy

2000-2001 WILMA AND CLIFFORD SMITH VISITOR IN Music

Performing on the Edith McConica Steinway

Smack Dab in the Middle
First Love Song
Ding Dong Ding

Mel

Sammy Nestico
Bob Brookmeyer
Bob Brookmeyer
Jim McNeely

11 O'clock Jazz Orchestra
Directed by Phil Nimmons

INTERMISSION

Extra Credit
In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning

Paper Spoons
Reflection
Off the Cuff

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David Mann & Bob Hilliard
arr. Jim McNeely

Jim McNeely
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Jim McNeely

10 O’clock Jazz Orchestra
Directed by Paul Read

The Jazz Series is generously sponsored by

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Meet the Artists

Born in Chicago, JIM
MCNEELY moved to New York City in
fi. Since then he has become part of

international jazz scene.

He received his first critical
acclaim as pianist with the groups of
trumpeters Ted Curson and Chet Baker.
In 1978 he joined the Thad Jones/ Mel
Lewis Jazz Orchestra. He spent six years
as a featured soloist with that band and
its successor, Mel Lewis and the Jazz
Orchestra (now the Vanguard Orchestra).
1981 saw the beginning of his four year
tenure as pianist/composer with the Stan
Getz Quartet. From 1990 unitl 1995 he
held the piano chair in the Phil Woods
quintet. At the present time, he leads his
own trio, and appears as soloist at
concerts and festivals in places as varied
as Finland, Australia, and Cleveland.

Mr. McNeely’s reputation as an
original composer/arranger for large jazz
bands continues to grow. His most recent
work includes projects with the Carnegie
Hall Jazz Band, the Metropole Orchestra
(Netherlands), the West German Radio

-R.) Big Band, and the Stockholm
Jazz Orchestra. In January of 1996, he
re-joined the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra as
pianist and composer in residence. The
New York Times has called his writing
“exhilarating”; Bob Brookmeyer has
written about Jim: “Whatever the next step
is in music, I firmly believe he will be
its...””

He has appeared as sideman on
numerous recordings led by major
artists such as Thad Jones, Art Farmer,
Robert Watson and Phil Woods. He
currently has eight albums under his own
name. The latest is Lickety Split — the
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Plays the

Music of Jim McNeely.

Teaching is also an important
element of Mr. McNeely’s work. Since
1981 he has been part of the jazz faculty
at New York University, where he is
currently Adjunct Resident Artist in Jazz
Studies. For a number of years he has
appeared at numerous college jazz
festivals as performer and clinician, and
has been involved regularly with
summer workshops such as the Stanford
Jazz Workshop and Jamey Aebersold’s
Summer Jazz Clinics. He has also done
teaching residencies at institutions in the
U.S., Canada, Spain, Sweden, Finland,
Germany, and Australia. In the Fall of
1991 he became a co-director of the
B.M.I. Jazz Composer’s Workshop.

PHIL NIMMONS is a legend in his
own time and unique in Canada as a
performer, composer, educator, clinician
and artistic director of music programs.
After graduating in pre-Medicine at the
University of British Columbia, Mr.
Nimmons made an early career move
when he accepted a scholarship to study
at the Juilliard School of Music in New
York. Later, he did post-graduate studies
with composer John Weinzweig at the
University of Toronto. He is a founding
member of the Canadian League of
Composers and also founded, with Oscar
Peterson and Ray Brown, the Advanced
School of Contemporary Music in the
1960s. Mr. Nimmons was the first artistic
director of summer jazz programs at the
Banff School of Fine Arts, University of
Toronto, York University, Courtney Youth
Music Centre, and others. He was
involved in the New West Jazz Clinic,
introduced the jazz program at the

University of Western Ontario, is an
inspired adjudicator with MusicFest
Canada and a popular clinician for
Yamaha Music Canada. Mr. Nimmons has
taught at the University of Toronto
Faculty of Music for over 20 years. He
influenced the inauguration of the Jazz
Studies Program there‘and is currently its
Director Emeritus.

A prolific, multimedia composer of
original contemporary classical and jazz
compositions and an arranger of music
written for stage, television, radio,
theatre and film, he recorded extensively
in the 1960s and 1970s with Nimmons ‘n
Nine and the larger Nimmons ‘n Nine Plus
Six on Verve, RCA and Sackville labels.
His recently released double CD
published by Sackvide Records is a
compilation of earlier jazz classics (The
Atlantic Suite, Suite P.E.I.) and Tributes.
Previous unpublished, Tributes is a
collection of seven works which
acknowledge and honour “people and
events that have touched my life,” says
Phil. Amongst these are: EEE-Suave for
Duke Ellington, Ros for Frank Rosolino,
Think Nice Thoughts for Ted O’Reilly,
and Birdburger for David Bird, former
producer of Jam Canadiana/Jazz Radio
Canada.

Mr. Nimmons is a virtuoso clarinetist
who plays daily to maintain technique and
to discover new sounds on the horn and
ways of reaching them. His jazz solos are
unique, often “outside,” always cerebral
and frequently as whimsical as the man.

He has always been recognized by his
peers and students for his tremendous
contributions to jazz in Canada. The first
recipient of the Toronto Arts Award for
Creative Excellence in Music, his formal
awards also include the Juno Award, Jazz
Reports awards for clarinet performance,

and others. Canada officially
acknowledged his work in 1994 when he
was made an Officer of the Order of
Canada and a member of the Order of
Ontario. He was cited for “his significant
contribution to the cultural ite
Canada...and for being largely responsible
for bringing jazz into the mainstream of
music in Canada through radio
performances, concerts, workshops and
class rooms.” As a clarinetist, composer,
band leader and teacher, he has
contributed to the success of established
musicians and influenced the careers of
generations of younger musicians.

He continues the legend by inspiring
young musicians and being a tireless
advocate of jazz as a significant art
form...into the next millennium.

PAUL READ is Professor of Music
and Director of Jazz Studies at the
University of Toronto where he teaches
improvisation, ensembles, theory and
conducts the 10 O’Clock Jazz Orchestra
(1996 winner of the Jazz Report Award
for Most Outstanding Post-Secondary
School Jazz Ensemble). At U of T, Mr.
Read has been responsible for develop
the university’s Jazz Performance De
program which employs many of
Canada’s leading jazz artists including
Dave Young, Mike Murley, Brian
Dickinson, Kevin Turcotte, Lorne Lofsky,
Barry Elmes, Terry Lukiwski, Don
Thompson, Phil Nimmons and many
others. In 1993, he received the University
of Toronto Senior Alumni Award for
Innovation in Teaching.

Besides earning graduate and
undergraduate degrees in music and
education at the University of Toronto,
Mr. Read also attended Berklee College
in Boston where he studied saxophone

with Joe Viola and arranging with Ted
Pease. He also studied arranging and
composition with Gordon Delamont and
composition with John Beckwith. He has
ublished arrangements and compositions
@: Boosey and Hawkes, Belwin, UNC
ress and Beldriana Publishing and has
worked with Oscar Peterson in the
production of three volumes of
transcriptions of Peterson’s compositions
and improvisations. Several of his
compositions appear in the Canadian Jazz
Fakebook. He is also editor of the Jazz
Canada Bulletin.

Mr. Read plays saxophone, flute
and piano with notable performances at
the du Maurier Jazz Festival and Toronto
jazz clubs. He has also been featured on
the Sounds of Toronto Jazz Series on
CJRT.FM and performed on CBC Radio’s
Live at Five. His first CD, recorded with

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10 O’Clock Jazz Orchestra
Director: Paul Read

Tara Davidson (alto)
Allan Gaumond (alto)
Rob Mosher (tenor)
Jane Topple (tenor)
Janice Crewe (baritone)

Saxophones:

Trumpets: Jason Logue

Meiko Lydall
Jeremy Keeling
Sam Christophersen

Mike Falla

Chris Hunt

James Mashinter
Ryan Purchase

Kevin Fleming (bass)

Trombones:

Guitar:
Piano:
Bass:
Drums:

Dave Sikula
Brent Jarvis
Mike Smith
Dave McDougall

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jazz singer, Trish Colter, The Dance Never
Ends, was released in January 1998.

Mr. Read has adjudicated at
festivals and presented workshops
throughout Canada since 1975. From
1981 to 1989 Paul was on the summer jazz
faculty of the Saskatchewan School of the
Arts and has been coordinator of the
National Music Camp Jazz Program since
1987. He is a past Chairman of the
Instrumental Jazz Division of MusicFest
Canada and is currently Director of
Communications for Jazz Canada (IAJE).

The 10 AND 11 O’CLOCK JAZZ
ORCHESTRAS comprise Faculty of
Music students and are led by Toronto
jazz musicians and U of T faculty
members, Phil Nimmons and Paul Read.

K2

11 O’Clock Jazz Orchestra
Director: Phil Nimmons
Saxophones: Emilio Reyes LeBlanc (alto)
Danielle Frederick (alto)
Bryan Hayes (tenor)
Jason Sharp (tenor)
Ashley Weisdorf (baritone)

Curtis Hunter
Jeremy Keeling
Mike Falla

Nicole Rampersaud

Trumpets:

Carla Klassen
Matt Banks
Tanya Sudy
Chris Hunt (bass)

Trombones:

Brennan Louw

Jonathan Baker
Ross MacIntyre
Emesto Cervini

Guitar:
Piano:
Bass:
Drums:

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UNIVERSITY In recital with Don Thompson, bass

Sania Thursday, November 9, 8 p.m. Walter Hall
: Tickets: $20/10

The Year of the Piano Series is sponsored by

House of Music

Mike Murley, saxophone
Steve Wallace, bass
David Braid, piano
Friday, November 10, 8 p.m. Walter Hall
Tickets: $20/10

The essential elements of jazz - intuition, groove, virtuosity, and spontaneity - all

uniquely blended by these three great musicians.

Two Nights of Vocal Jazz

U of T Vocal Jazz Ensemble
Wednesday, November 15, 8:30pm, Walter Hall
Tickets: $12/6

A Night of Vocal Jazz Solos
Tuesday, November 21, 8:30pm, Walter Hall
Free

Where Great Jigg Long & McQuade
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A chord is struck, but never fades, sustained forever.

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remembering the Faculty of Music in his Will,
he created an endowment fund that will
provide enduring financial support to gifted
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